Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a heavy swell, with a light south-south- easterly breeze blowing and fog. It was low water. The life-boat found the fishing vessel, with a crew of two, aground on the wall at King Scar and in danger of capsizing into deep water.

A member of the life-boat crew was put aboard the Gien Mie to help her crew, and the life-boat then towed her to Fleetwood, arriving at three o'clock.

Reward to the crew, £8 15s. ; reward to the helpers on shore, £2 12s..